WOOOOT! Goodbye touchscreen voting machines in NC!

[octoberlib]

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Josh Lawson‏ @josh_lawson 5h5 hours ago
NC also phasing out touch-screen machines by 2019.



Josh Lawson is the General Counsel for the N.C. Elections Board

[William769]

1. K&R!

[octoberlib]

3. I hope more states start doing this. Especially swing states!

[Warpy]

2. GOP sweep in 2018, then

If we still have a party in 2020, maybe y'all will kick the lot of them out.

[broadcaster90210]

15. This helps Dems, not the GOP.

nt

[Warpy]

19. The machines will be in use in 2018

and discarded in 2019. 2018 is the election year and it comes first. So in 2018 this helps the GOP.

[davekriss]

22. Yup + another turn at census/redistricting

[Persondem]

4. I live in NC ... never used touch screen and glad of it

They open up too many bad possibilities. I have used optically scanned ballots for the last 20 years and, imo, they are the way to go.

K & R

[Thrill]

21. Here in Charlotte. I can't even remember NOT having

To use touchscreen

[kentuck]

5. After this Russian scandal...

We should want a paper trail across the nation.

[Plucketeer]

13. I agree totally!

Here we are in the next MILLENIUM and we don't have a standardized voting form or method for the whole nation! ONE FORM - INDELIBLE PENS to mark those forms with! Also, exact same (type&brand) - non-electronic (computerized), tally machines to read the ballots.

How many other countries have the same mish-mash of voting hardware that we contend with???

[broadcaster90210]

16. +1

nt

[msongs]

6. all electronic machines are hackable. it is not the end of e-vote fraud

so you got a receipt showing your vote? that is not proof the machine recorded that for the final tally.
a machine connected to another machine or the internet is also quite hackable. sending totals to a central processor is also a place where changes can be made, or at the central processor.

[TheFrenchRazor]

7. this. nt

[broadcaster90210]

17. Indeed additional issues but this is a plus.

Nt

[blueinredohio]

8. That's good now two states getting rid of touchscreens

How do we do it in Ohio?

[AllyCat]

9. 2019. Not soon enough.

[colsohlibgal]

10. I Hope This Is A Real Trend

Two down Forty Eight to go!

Let's see if the Right can win minus cheating.

[Ligyron]

11. This could be a thing.

Demand it!

[rockfordfile]

12. Need more of that.

[rtracey]

14. well

The first thing I posted on here after the election debacle was:

1. have a republican and a democrat counting votes and
2. go to paper ballots.

[MoonRiver]

18. WooHoo, happy dance!!

[smirkymonkey]

20. Could be sooner, but I'll take it.

[BadgerMom]

23. Great!

[musette_sf]

24. We had them in Cali for ONE election

and THAT is how the Gropinator was *S*elected.

[spanone]

25. K&R...

[Dopers_Greed]

26. The GOP will clean-up in 2018

Then probably use whatever gains they make to block this.

[Honeycombe8]

27. They're afraid Russia's going to hack it for the Democrat next time. nt

[Lyricalinklines]

28. Yay! What a grand thing to say goodbye to!

[gtar100]

29. By 2019... damn. Well better than 2021.

Congratulations North Carolina. May it come to pass sooner than later.

These electronic voting machines should be dropped immediately and the whole election process treated as a state of emergency - it needs to be fixed right away. It's like using your car after the brakes failed on you. Oh well... it's a big ship to turn. Hope it's not too late.